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Free Meta Title & Description Checker
Check your page metadata, preview an approximate search snippet, and edit the title and description before copying them to your site.
- Editable preview
- Desktop & mobile
- Noindex check
- CSV export
Paste a public page to check its metadata and edit an approximate desktop or mobile search preview. Google may choose a different title, snippet or layout.
What it checks
Six things, each one with a reason attached.
An approximate search snippet
Preview your title and description with estimated desktop and mobile width limits. Google may rewrite the text or use a different layout.
Why it matters. Letters have different widths. A pixel estimate helps you spot likely truncation that a character count can miss.
A box to rewrite it in
Edit the title and description in place. The preview and both budget bars update as you type, and you can copy the finished tags out.
Why it matters. Knowing a title is 12 characters too long does not fix it. Rewriting it against a live preview does, in about a minute.
Indexing directives and canonical URL
Check robots meta tags and the X-Robots-Tag header for noindex, plus the canonical URL and where it points. This is not a complete indexing audit.
Why it matters. A leftover noindex directive can prevent an otherwise useful page from appearing in search.
Title against H1
The H1 on the page and how many there are, next to the title tag.
Why it matters. The title wins the click and the H1 confirms the reader landed in the right place. When they contradict each other, people bounce.
Social preview tags
og:title, og:description, og:image, and the Twitter card tags.
Why it matters. These tags help social platforms display the title, description and image you want people to see when a link is shared.
A ranked list, not a score
Every finding sorted worst first, each one saying what to change and why it matters.
Why it matters. A number out of 100 tells you how you feel. An ordered list tells you what to do next.
Straight answers
The questions people actually ask.
How long should a title tag be?
About 30 to 60 characters is a practical starting point. Truncation varies by text width, device and search layout. This tool estimates width to help you edit; it cannot reproduce every Google result.
Google ignored my meta description. Why write one?
Google rewrites descriptions when its own snippet matches the query better, which happens often. It still uses yours a great deal of the time, and when it does, the description is the only sentence standing between a search result and a visit. Writing one costs two minutes.
Will fixing my metadata make me rank higher?
A clear title helps explain the page, and a useful description can encourage clicks. Neither guarantees better rankings. Check search intent, content, internal links and indexability too.
Does this change my website?
No. The tool reads publicly accessible HTML; it does not reproduce Google's crawling or rendering. Anything you rewrite here lives in your browser until you copy it into your CMS yourself.
Can I check a page behind a login?
No. It checks publicly accessible HTML. A login or a site's bot protection can prevent a check; a failed check does not establish that Google cannot access the page.
Next step
Good metadata on a page nobody searches for is still nothing.
This tool fixes the label. The harder question is which pages your site should have in the first place — and that is the one Rootscript answers. It reads your site and your search data, finds the questions your customers are typing, and writes the pages that answer them. You approve every draft before a word goes live.
Free for your first month. No card needed, and nothing publishes until you press publish.
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